I am new to the DIY Drones community and UAVs in general but have a lot of experience producing durable parts made directly from CAD data. When considering the DIY Drones site I noticed there is some great resources for electronic components but what if someone wants to design and produce a stellar airframe or other custom parts? Has anyone dabbled in CAD and considered producing their own parts in nylon without a mold???My company NWUAV (www.nwuav.com) has produced custom airframes as well as shrouds, intakes, brackets, etc for industry and I thought, why not for hobbyists too? If you can design it in CAD, we can build it! Any complexity with walls 0.020" and up (note: best to design 0.040" and up for any load bearing feature). Our parts are flying on thousands of planes. If anyone has some interest, let me know! You can send your CAD files to alex.dick@nwuav.com.
It is very interesting.
I have several CAD frames but I am very curious how much would it cost to produce Easy Star fuselage (just for the information purposes) in thechnology you described. Do you have any guidelines how to make CAD models that best fit your production line?
Regards
Michal
In industry the applications lend to airframes on verticle lift type models. In other cases the process is used to put a lightweight (non-structural) skin or create electrical boxes, etc. Another use includes ducting to either bring air into an engine or create cooling paths. What's neat about the process is that you can design geometries that are too time consuming, costly, or impossible to make in other technologies. Often, several parts can be integrated into one for increased functionality and value. What I am hoping is that hobbyist are able to capture their unique ideas in CAD and this can be the starting point for conversation/ballpark pricing.
Thanks for the info. Can you share some picture in the comments here to give us some examples of what kind of parts people typically order in the UAV space?
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I have several CAD frames but I am very curious how much would it cost to produce Easy Star fuselage (just for the information purposes) in thechnology you described. Do you have any guidelines how to make CAD models that best fit your production line?
Regards
Michal
In industry the applications lend to airframes on verticle lift type models. In other cases the process is used to put a lightweight (non-structural) skin or create electrical boxes, etc. Another use includes ducting to either bring air into an engine or create cooling paths. What's neat about the process is that you can design geometries that are too time consuming, costly, or impossible to make in other technologies. Often, several parts can be integrated into one for increased functionality and value. What I am hoping is that hobbyist are able to capture their unique ideas in CAD and this can be the starting point for conversation/ballpark pricing.Thanks for the info. Can you share some picture in the comments here to give us some examples of what kind of parts people typically order in the UAV space?
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